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Excalidraw vs Kajabi

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Kajabi both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Kajabi (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is ahead of Kajabi. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of Kajabi. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Kajabi is clearly ahead of Excalidraw.

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors on record. Kajabi shows 99 stars across 103 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 1381.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Kajabi looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricExcalidrawKajabi
Ranking
Overall rank#103#662
Pillars
Overall5532
Code5947
Education6851
Community5218
Reach4511
Momentum644
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars136,74499
Forks15,93742
Public repos25103
Active repos (90d)38
External contributors21511
Avg polish5645
Avg AI-readiness3736

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